Tau-Gu, chief of the Paiutes overlooking virgin river with J.W. Powell age 39. grca 13806. circa 1873, National Park Service. John Wesley Powell and the Bureau of Ethnology Among many of the ...

John Wesley Powell is born on March 24 in Mount Morris, New York, the second son of Joseph and Mary Powell. The Confederacy fires on Fort Sumter on April 12. Enlists to fight in the Civil War on ...

John Wesley Powell (Wikimedia Commons ... by logic and demanded by the hard conditions of western climate and geography. In details it could probably bear revision; in general it was inescapable.

Surely the ghost of John Wesley Powell is out there somewhere ... the confidence to interpret wide stretches of geography seen from afar. Powell climbed mile-high (1.6-kilometer-high) cliffs ...

Some have said I wasn’t there. When a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell made the first known descent through the Grand Canyon in 1869, from the Green River Station in Wyoming ...